Shantel Holder

1 week ago | sporkful.com | Shantel Holder

Chefs tend to have a love-hate relationship with restaurant critics, who have the power to make or break them. Critics try to enter restaurants undetected, while chefs try to spot them, then ensure a flawless experience and a good review. This week, we have a story about one critic’s very unusual encounter with a famous chef, and the bombshell article that followed.

2 weeks ago | sporkful.com | Shantel Holder

Dan Pashman: Previously on The Sporkful …MUSICCLIP (MOKHTAR ALKHANSHALI): I would ask seasoned coffee buyers and roasters, "Where can I get Yemen coffee?", and they would say things like, "It's just really hard to get. We don't know where it comes from cause we don't — we can't go to that country.

3 weeks ago | sporkful.com | Shantel Holder

Every Friday, we reach into our deep freezer and reheat an episode to serve up to you. We're calling these our Reheats. If you have a show you want reheated, send us an email or voice memo at [email protected], and include your name, your location, which episode, and why. Mokhtar Alkhanshali was a doorman in San Francisco when he saw a statue that changed his life.

1 month ago | sporkful.com | Shantel Holder

Sebastian Maniscalco is one of the top-grossing comedians in America, beloved for his stories about the food-obsessed family he grew up in, and his constant irritation at just about everyone around him. And in 2021, he parlayed his love of food into a new Food Network show, Well Done. Sebastian talks with Dan about what it’s like going from a working-class upbringing — during which he torched hams to earn a little extra cash — to selling out Madison Square Garden many times over.

1 month ago | sporkful.com | Shantel Holder

Every Friday, we reach into our deep freezer and reheat an episode to serve up to you. We're calling these our Reheats. If you have a show you want reheated, send us an email or voice memo at [email protected], and include your name, your location, which episode, and why. A 150-year-old blood feud over processed meat... When the New Jersey State Legislature tried to designate an Official State Sandwich, a fight broke out. Should it be pork roll, egg, and cheese — or Taylor ham, egg, and cheese?